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The Eagle’s Heart

CHAPTER IV
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These facts must stand.

The State is willing to admit the disparity of strength, so artfully set forth by the defense, but it must not be forgotten that the boy was known to carry deadly weapons, and that he was subject to blind rages.

It was not, therefore, so much a question of punishing the boy as of checking his assaults upon society.

To properly punish him here would have a most salutary effect upon his action in future.

The jury must consider the case without sentiment." Old Brown arose after the State had finished.


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